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100 1 $aBitel, Lisa M.,$d1958-
245 10 $aLandscape with two saints :$bhow Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare built Christianity in barbarian Europe /$cLisa M. Bitel.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2009.
300 $axvi, 299 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-287) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : the journey to Brigit's well -- Paris before Genovefa : the landscape enters history -- Genovefa's territory -- Paris after Genovefa -- Crossings and conversions -- Ekphrasis at Kildare -- Brigit goes to ground -- Relics.
520 $aAt a time when Europeans still longed to be Roman and were just learning to be Christian, two holy women--Genovefa of Paris (ca. 420-502) and Brigit of Kildare (ca. 450-524)--began to roam their homelands. One of these saints raised an apostolic church in the imperial city that would become Paris. The other scavenged fragments of that dwindling empire for the foundations of a grand Roman basilica built deep in barbarian territory. Both brought Christianity and romanitas (Roman-ness) to their people. By examining the ruins of their cities and churches, the workings of their cults, and the many generations of their devotees, Lisa Bitel shows how Brigit and Genovefa helped northern Europeans map new religion onto familiar landscapes. Landscape with Two Saints tells the twin stories of these women but also explains how ordinary people lived through religious change at the very beginning of the Middle Ages. --From publisher's description.
600 00 $aGeneviève,$cSaint,$dapproximately 420-approximately 500.
651 0 $aParis (France)$xChurch history.
600 00 $aBrigid,$cof Ireland, Saint,$dapproximately 453-approximately 524.
651 0 $aKildare (Ireland)$xChurch history.
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